revengeday

Hello folks,

today 19.06.2023 between 18:00 - 22:00 UTC/GMT +2 we will update our Lemmy instance.

The instance may therefore be unavailable or cause errors between these times.

Thank you for your understanding.

Update: The update is ready. We have to install the cool cyber theme again - I'll take care of it.

Dear DATATERM Community,

It is with a heavy heart that I, Ramses Revengeday, the Admin of DATATERM based in Germany, bring forth an important announcement regarding our federation with lemmynsfw.com.

Due to legal obligations that stem from operating in Germany, I regret to inform you that we are compelled to discontinue our federation with lemmynsfw.com. It has come to my attention that this platform allows the posting of Loli-Art, which falls under the category of child pornography as per German law.

While lemmynsfw.com does feature other NSFW art, it is imperative that we uphold the principles of our legal system and ensure the safety of our community. Therefore, we must take immediate action to block the entire instance of lemmynsfw.com on our platform.

I understand that this decision may disappoint some of you who enjoy the content available on lemmynsfw.com. However, please note that you still have the option to create your own account on their platform to access their content directly.

I apologize for any inconvenience caused and appreciate your understanding and cooperation in this matter.

Should you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to me. Your feedback is highly valued, and I am here to provide assistance in any way I can.

Thank you for your attention and ongoing support.

Update

There seems to be a twist to this issue @[email protected] sent us a link to an update.

https://lemmynsfw.com/post/29826

We will leave out the Federation for the time being and discuss the issue internally.

We deeply apologize for the inconvenience caused by the existence of duplicate communities across various instances. Our bad! We understand the importance of uniqueness and will ensure that such duplications are eliminated. In the spirit of centralization, we'll concentrate efforts to avoid decentralization and create a singular, streamlined experience /s

The Google Graveyard grows

I don’t know if I agree with the characterization that Apollo is a fully direct competitor of Reddit.

Okay, hold on, timeout. You go to the App Store, you type in Reddit, you get two options, right? There’s Apollo. You go to one, it’s my business, and you look at our ads, use our products. That’s 95 percent of our iOS users. The rest go to Apollo, which uses our logo, or something like it, takes our data — for free — and resells it to users making a 100 percent margin. And instead of using our app, they use that app. Is that not competitive?

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Whisper, OpenAI's enigmatic speech recognition model, likely honed its skills on ZDF's subtitled videos, a source of knowledge.

Within its code, the cryptic message 'Untertitel im Auftrag des ZDF, 2017' reveals its origins. An echo of silence becomes the very essence of copyright notices.

I played around a bit with the Lemmy theme (darkly) and made it a little less cyberpunk'ish.

It doesn't necessarily look better, but it's not quite as bad as before - or worse now, that's for you to decide.

I'll make a few more changes in the days to come.

Little rant: custom.css doesn't seem to exist for Lemmy, angry sounds!

Folks, I need a little bit of your help. We started this little Lemmy instance without thinking much about it - lol.

So my question to you folks, what information are you missing. As I have noticed, our rules are a bit too hidden on this page. I will try to include them in the sidebar. Currently they are on our Legal page.

Is there any other information you need?

Small hint: Even if it's very cyberpunk'ish here, you are of course allowed to create communities or share posts that have nothing to do with cyberpunk :)

Update:

Link to the rules are now in the sidebar!